On 6 March 2024 the world’s first Mental Health Strike brought normal life to a near-total stand-still. One after another, people from many walks of life bridged the deep social divides, by publicly declaring that they could no longer maintain good mental health under contemporary work/life conditions. The Mental Health Strike initially began as aContinue reading “The Mental Health Strike ’24”
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Looking back 6 years
The mental health strike. A strike that I posited happened in an alternate reality in late January (the week always desrcibed as the most depressing) in 2018. We do live in a very different reality now, though. A very unexpected one, still confused and defined by a vague sense of dislocation, after a pandemic nobodyContinue reading “Looking back 6 years”
40th birthday present to myself
To deal with turning 40 I decided to post an ‘album’ of songs from my twenties on Spotify:
Turning 40 (a list of things I’m most proud about from the last 20 years)
I’m 40 years old in roughly 20 days. When it comes to a life lived through formalities, and rites of passage, there has been no life to speak of. Forgive me if this sounds like wallowing, it’s because Xmas time is really genuinely hard at the best of times. Seeing photos of couples, or familiesContinue reading “Turning 40 (a list of things I’m most proud about from the last 20 years)”
photos from preview of ‘Back to Normalism’
These are photographs from the preview of Back to Normalism, my most recent exhibition, which included a spoken word/sonic performance collaboration with myself and Adam Denton. Thanks to Mark Tighe for taking these pictures, which I feel perfectly capture the shows essence. Also, I did this quite lengthy interview for Charles Hutchinson press prior toContinue reading “photos from preview of ‘Back to Normalism’”
2022 in art and life
First of all I’d to start by concluding that most people have found the last few years some of their hardest with little let up. I think I may have said before, COVID 19 has merely been a catalyst for the spiralling and emergence of so many things that we just cannot easily identify asContinue reading “2022 in art and life”
6 years since Fighting For Crumbs at The World Transformed.
A hell of lot of water has passed under the bridge since a group show I was part of (Fighting For Crumbs: Art in The Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) was exhibited at the World Transformed event, at The World Transformed, in Liverpool in 2016. I started to think back as this year’s event occurs, asContinue reading “6 years since Fighting For Crumbs at The World Transformed.”
Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption
I took this post down from my social media account, as the act of sharing this specific sort of work, at that point, was more a reflection of certain self-destructive aspects that bubble up when I feel like I’m drowning in harmful emotions. The work was called ‘Monster’, and was an installation within my mostContinue reading “Reflections on aspects of A Radical Redemption”
A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects
From what began as a good opportunity to exhibit at a decent gallery in the region, A Radical Redemption became a meticulously obsessed-over project. Having had to initially cancel, when things got a little too much, I got a new opportunity for the exhibition to go ahead in the May 2022. I’ve been producing workContinue reading “A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects”
A Radical Redemption, new dates
I’m really glad to say that my ‘A Radical Redemption’ at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, a show I felt I had to cancel in January, is happening again; now with the dates 21 – 28 May. Thanks so much to everybody who participated to some of the earlier stages of this project, I’m pleased to sayContinue reading “A Radical Redemption, new dates”
John B Ledger 